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ICANN Set to Approve a Wave of New Top-Level Domains
Original: The Internet Runs on Cats and Porn. It's About to Get Cattier and Pornier https://www.wired.com/story/icann-top-level-do
ICANN is preparing to expand the internet's domain name system, allowing many more custom top-level domains beyond .com and .org. Wired reports this could flood the web with new suffixes, including playful and adult-oriented ones, reshaping how websites are named and found. Critics and commentators are weighing what a broader, more commercialized domain landscape means for brands, spam and internet culture.
Why now: ICANN's planned expansion of top-level domains is drawing attention over its potential impact on the web
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- The Internet Runs on Cats and Porn. It's About to Get Cattier and Pornier https://www.wired.com/story/icann-top-level-domains-meow/ # Internet # Culture # Technology · wired@robot.villas · 4
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